MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice The People's War Austen and Englishness Englishness as History Present Laughter My Ain Folk 'Indias of the Mind' In and Out of Africa Bibliography Index